Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
I like #1 too :) On 03/06/10 17:09, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 03/06/10 13:34, Liam Proven wrote: snip / #1 is pretty good. The rest, not so much, I'm afraid, at least for me. +1. Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
Just my tuppence; If the podcast team have decided on a (quite frankly, awesome) design, then would it not be a good idea to make the Ubuntu-UK website coherent with that? I mean, currently, the Podcast is run by members of the UK team, and is featured prominently on the first page of the website, but when it is clicked on, it brings you to a completely different website, and to me, personally, it just feels a bit messy to have 2 completely different designs. Of course, there will be elements of the website that will change, such as the colour scheme, and content, etc, but elements such as the navigation buttons and general layout of pages should, in my opinion, stay the same. But that's just my thoughts. Liam (wilsonliam) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:31 PM, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H Improved Mockup - http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/improved.png -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 3 June 2010 17:00, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote: I don't really see much point in reinventing the wheel here. Luckily the Ubuntu Drupal team has setup a lovely theme and a few extra modules for Drupal which can design a wonderful website. Here's a mockup of the site http://img2.pict.com/3e/8d/0b/3600091/0/1275580649.jpg . Is the Ubuntu Drupal team anything to do with the Ubuntu Website people - Matt Nuzum? https://lists.canonical.com/archives/ubuntu-website/2010-May/000926.html There is a team of people creating a common theme for LoCos to (optionally) use. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
Hi, Of these I liked 1 best. I don't think you should use 'interesting' menus (3 - 6) for the general public. I don't dislike London skyline, though I don't live there. Other iconically British pictures - oak tree? Joe _ From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of micheal harker Sent: 03 June 2010 13:31 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org http://ubuntu-uk.org/ so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
How about doing something like this instead of the skyline picture... just with more faces? http://barbaragretter.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/faces_collage_30.jpg Joe Metcalfe joe.metca...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Hi, Of these I liked 1 best. I don't think you should use 'interesting' menus (3 - 6) for the general public. I don't dislike London skyline, though I don't live there. Other iconically British pictures - oak tree? Joe _ From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of micheal harker Sent: 03 June 2010 13:31 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org http://ubuntu-uk.org/ so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
Ar Gwe, 2010-06-04 am 09:48 +0100, ysgrifennodd Alan Pope: On 3 June 2010 17:00, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote: I don't really see much point in reinventing the wheel here. Luckily the Ubuntu Drupal team has setup a lovely theme and a few extra modules for Drupal which can design a wonderful website. Here's a mockup of the site http://img2.pict.com/3e/8d/0b/3600091/0/1275580649.jpg . Is the Ubuntu Drupal team anything to do with the Ubuntu Website people - Matt Nuzum? https://lists.canonical.com/archives/ubuntu-website/2010-May/000926.html There is a team of people creating a common theme for LoCos to (optionally) use. Cheers, Al. As far as I know, not entirely sure but a few of the Ubuntu Drupal team do help with that website project. As I understand it though Ubuntu Drupal was here before the Ubuntu Website and as such I'm guessing that they contribute their work over to them in some form or another. Actually just scrap the above, I've checked their bzr branch at lp:~ubuntu-website-community/ubuntu-website/light-drupal-theme and there's seems to have been no revisions yet but then again that branch was only made 10 days ago. I have just however branched kuzeko's branch to take a look and it seems pretty alright as a foundation. Unfortunately my web-page screenshot tool isn't working but you can access a preview at http://98.142.210.218/light-base-theme/ if needed. Chris. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 4 June 2010 10:57, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote: Actually just scrap the above, I've checked their bzr branch at lp:~ubuntu-website-community/ubuntu-website/light-drupal-theme and there's seems to have been no revisions yet but then again that branch was only made 10 days ago. I have just however branched kuzeko's branch to take a look and it seems pretty alright as a foundation. Unfortunately my web-page screenshot tool isn't working but you can access a preview at http://98.142.210.218/light-base-theme/ if needed. Chris. As a design this gets my vote. This would likely mean using Drupal but hey - it might make things easier in the long term. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 4 June 2010 12:09, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: As a design this gets my vote. This would likely mean using Drupal but hey - it might make things easier in the long term. Ooh, that is pretty. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 22:23 +0100, Joe O'Dell wrote: Hi I was wondering if maybe we could have pictures of places from across the UK? Why not have a list on the Wiki of places people can take pictures of local landmarks (CC-BY or PD licensed, of course) and then have a community vote as to the best ones? I'm happy to contribute any of my UK pictures, they're all CC-BY-SA: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brunogirin/tags/uk/page3/ (start on page 3 as the first 2 pages are all about last year's Wimbledon so no landmarks there unless you consider Ana Ivanovic wacking a ball being a landmark) Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:09 +0100, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: On 4 June 2010 10:57, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote: Actually just scrap the above, I've checked their bzr branch at lp:~ubuntu-website-community/ubuntu-website/light-drupal-theme and there's seems to have been no revisions yet but then again that branch was only made 10 days ago. I have just however branched kuzeko's branch to take a look and it seems pretty alright as a foundation. Unfortunately my web-page screenshot tool isn't working but you can access a preview at http://98.142.210.218/light-base-theme/ if needed. Chris. As a design this gets my vote. This would likely mean using Drupal but hey - it might make things easier in the long term. It definitely gets my vote too! It's slick and simple. I'm sure the design can be adapted to other tools than Drupal if we want to, although using Drupal would probably make things simpler. Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 4 June 2010 05:37, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote: This is mostly fixable these days using @font-face (supported by current versions of all the major browsers) -- the font can simply be embedded into the site and downloaded by the browser ⢁). I wouldn't rely on that. IE is still very picky about such things, and however much we might hope that people would be using Open Source options the fact is that the majority are not. Therefore, let's stick to web safe fonts Actually this works fine in IE8, and if a particular font is what's wanted I see no reason not to use it. Of course we should make sure it still looks ok in browsers that don't support @font-face though! -- Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 4 June 2010 12:53, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:09 +0100, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: On 4 June 2010 10:57, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote: Actually just scrap the above, I've checked their bzr branch at lp:~ubuntu-website-community/ubuntu-website/light-drupal-theme and there's seems to have been no revisions yet but then again that branch was only made 10 days ago. I have just however branched kuzeko's branch to take a look and it seems pretty alright as a foundation. Unfortunately my web-page screenshot tool isn't working but you can access a preview at http://98.142.210.218/light-base-theme/ if needed. Chris. As a design this gets my vote. This would likely mean using Drupal but hey - it might make things easier in the long term. It definitely gets my vote too! It's slick and simple. I'm sure the design can be adapted to other tools than Drupal if we want to, although using Drupal would probably make things simpler. Bruno Sorry for any confusion, I was saying that the Ubuntu Website team has no Drupal themes that I could find, the one that I linked was an HTML theme. The site available at http://staging.profarius.com/ is indeed a Drupal site. The one at http://98.142.210.218/light-base-theme/ on a VPS of mine is simply bog standard HTML. Chris. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:31 PM, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. I'm impressed that you managed to misspell both projects (progects) and interest (intrest). :¬) #1 is pretty good. The rest, not so much, I'm afraid, at least for me. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Mockup 1 for me. Steve Garton http://blog.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I vote 'no' to a London skyline. -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I can only go for #1. I don't like the others - sorry. Regards, Andy. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
1 is by far my favorite, then 6 and then 4. I agree with the idea last night of a focus group though. It should mean that potentail suggestions and design ideas will be a lot more organised. Gadget3000 On 3 Jun 2010 13:35, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:31 PM, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team... I'm impressed that you managed to misspell both projects (progects) and interest (intrest). :¬) #1 is pretty good. The rest, not so much, I'm afraid, at least for me. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 3 June 2010 13:38, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I vote 'no' to a London skyline. -- Philip Stubbs Exactly. I prefer Mockup 1 to the others, but it feels way too commercial. We're not trying to get people to part with any money here. -- Harry Rickards - ha...@linux.com Vote Lib Dem - Building a fairer Britain - http://libdems.org.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I vote 'no' to a London skyline. Why, because it's London? In that case, can you suggest some other imagery that is distinctively British? Personally I am not sure that any other British city is iconic enough to be internationally recognisable. Stonehenge? (Not very modern or forwards-looking!) Olympics stadium? (Not finished yet.) None of the UK mountains are particularly recognisable - I doubt I could tell Snowdon or Ben Nevis or anything from any other random mountain in temperate climes. Loch Ness? The Lake District? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 3 June 2010 13:44, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I vote 'no' to a London skyline. Why, because it's London? In that case, can you suggest some other imagery that is distinctively British? Personally I am not sure that any other British city is iconic enough to be internationally recognisable. Stonehenge? (Not very modern or forwards-looking!) Olympics stadium? (Not finished yet.) None of the UK mountains are particularly recognisable - I doubt I could tell Snowdon or Ben Nevis or anything from any other random mountain in temperate climes. Loch Ness? The Lake District? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 What about a good old British flag (although that would require some reworking of the design)? -- Harry Rickards - ha...@linux.com Vote Lib Dem - Building a fairer Britain - http://libdems.org.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
We could easily use a JavaScript sildeshow to rotate images. Then everyone (Well, not everyone) will be happy. You could have a picture of London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast on rotation. I would reccomend http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net - Craig On 3 Jun 2010, at 13:44, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I vote 'no' to a London skyline. Why, because it's London? In that case, can you suggest some other imagery that is distinctively British? Personally I am not sure that any other British city is iconic enough to be internationally recognisable. Stonehenge? (Not very modern or forwards-looking!) Olympics stadium? (Not finished yet.) None of the UK mountains are particularly recognisable - I doubt I could tell Snowdon or Ben Nevis or anything from any other random mountain in temperate climes. Loch Ness? The Lake District? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Craig Peden cpe...@cogigo.com wrote: We could easily use a JavaScript sildeshow to rotate images. Then everyone (Well, not everyone) will be happy. You could have a picture of London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast on rotation. I would reccomend http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net - Craig On 3 Jun 2010, at 13:44, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I vote 'no' to a London skyline. Why, because it's London? In that case, can you suggest some other imagery that is distinctively British? Personally I am not sure that any other British city is iconic enough to be internationally recognisable. Stonehenge? (Not very modern or forwards-looking!) Olympics stadium? (Not finished yet.) None of the UK mountains are particularly recognisable - I doubt I could tell Snowdon or Ben Nevis or anything from any other random mountain in temperate climes. Loch Ness? The Lake District? -- The compromise we came up with for the current site is to rotate[1] images submitted to us for the header, something similar could be done again. [1] http://ubuntu-uk.org/dev/headerimages/rotate.php (refresh to rotate) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:31 PM, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H It looks like a clear winner... Mockup 1 with votes of 5. I have thought this needs more for a overall majority thus I am leaving my Table I have considered the comments and going to make the demo ready soon. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On 3 June 2010 13:44, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: I vote 'no' to a London skyline. Why, because it's London? No, because I see it all over the place, and I don't think that it looks very nice. Also, it represents only a small area of the UK. If a city sky-scape is required, how about having a selection of different cities and rotate them? People may not recognise them by sight, but they could be watermarked. Then when others view the sight, they can learn what Manchester, Bristol or Edinburgh looks like. You get the idea? Don't let me put you off. I know what I don't like, but find it much harder to imagine what I do. I admire anybody's ability to pull a design together. Have fun. -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:31 PM, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H Could the community Provide their Mockups? We can work at a design we all like. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:24 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote: On 3 June 2010 13:44, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: I vote 'no' to a London skyline. Why, because it's London? No, because I see it all over the place, and I don't think that it looks very nice. Also, it represents only a small area of the UK. If a city sky-scape is required, how about having a selection of different cities and rotate them? People may not recognise them by sight, but they could be watermarked. Then when others view the sight, they can learn what Manchester, Bristol or Edinburgh looks like. You get the idea? Don't let me put you off. I know what I don't like, but find it much harder to imagine what I do. I admire anybody's ability to pull a design together. Have fun. Surely this is a community group, we should have pictures of the LoCo doing stuff rather than pictures of places? Just my 2p. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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Hi On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H #1 is the one Id prefer. The others the text seems grainy, but it might just be me Thanks Mark -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:30 +0100, micheal harker wrote: snippety Could the community Provide their Mockups? We can work at a design we all like. Right, I had a go. Not particularly good.. but since LoCo = community, thought we should be a bit more people orientated. http://daubers.co.uk/~matt/mockup.png -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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Hello all, In order to get as much input as possible and get things rolling, we've started an Etherpad here http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/NewUKSite feel free to edit/add stuff and get your tuppence in now :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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Of them all the only one I remotely like is #1. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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Number 1 by far for me. I don't really like the side bar navigation. Hugh -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Harry Rickards Sent: 03 June 2010 13:41 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups On 3 June 2010 13:38, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup1.png Mockup 2: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup2.png Mockup 3: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup3.png Mockup 4: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup4.png Mockup 5: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup5.png Mockup 6: http://www.michealh.co.cc/ubuntu/ubuntu-uk/mockup6.png lets narrow it down to 3 ideas. I will make live demos of the Site then we will vote for the final one. Micheal H -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I vote 'no' to a London skyline. -- Philip Stubbs Exactly. I prefer Mockup 1 to the others, but it feels way too commercial. We're not trying to get people to part with any money here. -- Harry Rickards - ha...@linux.com Vote Lib Dem - Building a fairer Britain - http://libdems.org.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: In that case, can you suggest some other imagery that is distinctively British? - Devonshire Cream Tea? - Gold Hill, Shaftesbury (the Hovis Advert) - Quiet country cottage with wood smoke radiating from chimney, preferably with Miss Marple-esque figure trimming roses. - Concorde Foxy on her final flight over the Avon Gorge - A Colliery Brass Band ...or, perhaps, a montage of all of the above? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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Suggestion: on option1 we have a rotating image. So the one we see in the png is London, UK, the next one might be Floral Dance, Cornwall, UK, the next one Dancing at the Glastonbury Festival, UK and so and so on... could have about 30 different images of UK culture that alternate - that way, nobody would feel excluded. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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Ar Iau, 2010-06-03 am 16:09 +0100, ysgrifennodd Sean Miller: Suggestion: on option1 we have a rotating image. So the one we see in the png is London, UK, the next one might be Floral Dance, Cornwall, UK, the next one Dancing at the Glastonbury Festival, UK and so and so on... could have about 30 different images of UK culture that alternate - that way, nobody would feel excluded. Sean I don't really see much point in reinventing the wheel here. Luckily the Ubuntu Drupal team has setup a lovely theme and a few extra modules for Drupal which can design a wonderful website. Here's a mockup of the site http://img2.pict.com/3e/8d/0b/3600091/0/1275580649.jpg . The Ubuntu Header module could be replaced with any module which allows to rotation of images and as such there could be such landmarks as Big Ben, Stadiwm y Mileniwm, the houses of the parliaments and assemblies of the UK and whatever else takes your fancy. Chris. -- Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On 03/06/10 13:34, Liam Proven wrote: snip / #1 is pretty good. The rest, not so much, I'm afraid, at least for me. +1. Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.comwrote: On 03/06/10 13:34, Liam Proven wrote: snip / #1 is pretty good. The rest, not so much, I'm afraid, at least for me. +1. Al Idea 1 with a rotating image... Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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The podcast team were sent a mockup for the podcast site by a listener a while ago. In general we liked it, and the designer (without prompting) went off and created an initial go at the html, css and so on. I quite like it. He even redesigned our podcast logo, which is pretty cool. http://popey.com/~alan/podcast_mockup.png http://popey.com/~alan/UUPC/ We haven't switched to it yet because we (podcast team) are in our usual state of deliberating whether to switch to a completely different website engine for the podcast. This happens when wordpress or podpress (that we currently use) breaks in some way, we get miffed and decide to throw it out. Some work has been done to create a replacement site engine, but that's not complete, and I dont know if it ever will be. So we never put the above in place because we didn't want to duplicate effort. I have asked Andrew (who created the above mockup) if he'd be interested in doing a mockup for the main site too. So that would be cool to throw in with all the other mockups people have come up with! Seems people are really keen to update our web presence! Great stuff. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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Hi Guys Mockup 1 is in a different league to the rest. Far, far better. I am inclined to agree that the London skyline does suggest big business, because that kind of image has been used many times before to promote big city corporations. The balance is to look professional, but without looking too corporate. Keep the layout but change the image to something less indicative of one specific location. Nige -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On 03/06/10 18:30, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi Guys Mockup 1 is in a different league to the rest. Far, far better. I am inclined to agree that the London skyline does suggest big business, because that kind of image has been used many times before to promote big city corporations. The balance is to look professional, but without looking too corporate. I would be inclined to use large crowd images rather than skylines, for example some of the big group-shots from UDS (I'm sure someone clever with Gimp can crop and stretch them to make a suitable banner). Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:52:11 +0100, Michael Wood x3n.me...@gmail.com wrote: I vote 'no' to a London skyline. So do I. Why, because it's London? Yes In that case, can you suggest some other imagery that is distinctively British? Personally I am not sure that any other British city is iconic enough to be internationally recognisable. Stonehenge? (Not very modern or forwards-looking!) Olympics stadium? (Not finished yet.) None of the UK mountains are particularly recognisable - I doubt I could tell Snowdon or Ben Nevis or anything from any other random mountain in temperate climes. Loch Ness? The Lake District? -- The compromise we came up with for the current site is to rotate[1] images submitted to us for the header, something similar could be done again. [1] http://ubuntu-uk.org/dev/headerimages/rotate.php (refresh to rotate) An ideal solution, and not just because it shows Skeldergate Bridge ;) -- Steve (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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I am inclined to say that Daubers is the best mockup i have seen so far. Along with the podcast remake that Popey showed. I agree that MichealH's #1 Was the best of his bunch but prefer the above. Rhys -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Daubney Sent: 03 June 2010 15:35 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:30 +0100, micheal harker wrote: snippety Could the community Provide their Mockups? We can work at a design we all like. Right, I had a go. Not particularly good.. but since LoCo = community, thought we should be a bit more people orientated. http://daubers.co.uk/~matt/mockup.png -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:00:31 +0100, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote: Ar Iau, 2010-06-03 am 16:09 +0100, ysgrifennodd Sean Miller: Suggestion: on option1 we have a rotating image. So the one we see in the png is London, UK, the next one might be Floral Dance, Cornwall, UK, the next one Dancing at the Glastonbury Festival, UK and so and so on... could have about 30 different images of UK culture that alternate - that way, nobody would feel excluded. Sean I don't really see much point in reinventing the wheel here. Luckily the Ubuntu Drupal team has setup a lovely theme and a few extra modules for Drupal which can design a wonderful website. Here's a mockup of the site http://img2.pict.com/3e/8d/0b/3600091/0/1275580649.jpg . That is actually better then option #1 IMHO. It looks less business like. The Ubuntu Header module could be replaced with any module which allows to rotation of images and as such there could be such landmarks as Big Ben, Stadiwm y Mileniwm, the houses of the parliaments and assemblies of the UK and whatever else takes your fancy. The suggestion earlier, of 'community' type photos would be better. Pictures from the release parties, trip to the Science Museum, etc. Others could be added as the come along, like the proposed geeknic or the RAT trip. -- Steve (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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Right, I had a go. Not particularly good.. but since LoCo = community, thought we should be a bit more people orientated. http://daubers.co.uk/~matt/mockup.png -Matt Daubney Aloha! I really like the above as it's well very people focused which is what being in a LoCo is all about faces to the names and all that. It's straight forward to the point and has all of the information displayed without being cluttered! Laura -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski http://www.lczajkowski.com Skype: lauraczajkowski -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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This project is going to be fairly big in size therefore I think a bit of structure and planning is needed especially with the amount of ideas flying around at the moment. The classic mistake of web design/development has also happened here and the style of the website has been designed first with the content to follow later. Having a fair amount of experience in the design and building of sites myself this is undoubtedly going to lead to inefficiency during the build and due to the high volume of input here and the fluid nature of it, I can see the final result delivering a very confused message in terms of design and the general mechanics of the site. I am by no way criticising the ideas so far, they have been great! I am merely suggesting that if we first define a clear purpose of what the site needs to achieve then they styling will come together later and look a lot better. Some measurable objectives are desperately needed too in order to convert all the energy from everyone into constructing a fantastic site :o) Anyone agree? Ade P.s I think design #1 is the best so far. It's the most coherent design for me but I still think we could improve! Ubuntu-uk is all about the community, innovation and teamwork to overcome problems - surely whatever design is decided need to scream this. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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I agree with all of that. What would be a good way to organise all of our content and design ideas before the next mock up? Gadget3000 P.S Great work so far though to everyone! On 3 Jun 2010 20:47, Ade Goodyer adriangood...@googlemail.com wrote: This project is going to be fairly big in size therefore I think a bit of structure and planning is needed especially with the amount of ideas flying around at the moment. The classic mistake of web design/development has also happened here and the style of the website has been designed first with the content to follow later. Having a fair amount of experience in the design and building of sites myself this is undoubtedly going to lead to inefficiency during the build and due to the high volume of input here and the fluid nature of it, I can see the final result delivering a very confused message in terms of design and the general mechanics of the site. I am by no way criticising the ideas so far, they have been great! I am merely suggesting that if we first define a clear purpose of what the site needs to achieve then they styling will come together later and look a lot better. Some measurable objectives are desperately needed too in order to convert all the energy from everyone into constructing a fantastic site :o) Anyone agree? Ade P.s I think design #1 is the best so far. It's the most coherent design for me but I still think we could improve! Ubuntu-uk is all about the community, innovation and teamwork to overcome problems - surely whatever design is decided need to scream this. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
This project is going to be fairly big in size therefore I think a bit of structure and planning is needed especially with the amount of ideas flying around at the moment. The classic mistake of web design/development has also happened here and the style of the website has been designed first with the content to follow later. Having a fair amount of experience in the design and building of sites myself this is undoubtedly going to lead to inefficiency during the build and due to the high volume of input here and the fluid nature of it, I can see the final result delivering a very confused message in terms of design and the general mechanics of the site. I am by no way criticising the ideas so far, they have been great! I am merely suggesting that if we first define a clear purpose of what the site needs to achieve then they styling will come together later and look a lot better. Some measurable objectives are desperately needed too in order to convert all the energy from everyone into constructing a fantastic site :o) Anyone agree? Ade P.s I think design #1 is the best so far. It's the most coherent design for me but I still think we could improve! Ubuntu-uk is all about the community, innovation and teamwork to overcome problems - surely whatever design is decided need to scream this. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On 03/06/10 13:44, Liam Proven wrote: I vote 'no' to a London skyline. Why, because it's London? In that case, can you suggest some other imagery that is distinctively British? Personally I am not sure that any other British city is iconic enough to be internationally recognisable. Pie Mash? The Queen? The Queen eating pie mash? Stonehenge? (Not very modern or forwards-looking!) Olympics stadium? (Not finished yet.) None of the UK mountains are particularly recognisable - I doubt I could tell Snowdon or Ben Nevis or anything from any other random mountain in temperate climes. Loch Ness? The Lake District? Um... just a thought, Ubuntu UK is aimed at well, folks in the UK right? Why limit it so imagery which is distinctively British? I was wondering if maybe we could have pictures of places from across the UK? Out of the mockups though, I like number 1. Actually I'm not bothered by the London Skyline myself, is the London Eye in there? (That's one of the first things I think of followed by Buckingham Palace). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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Hi I was wondering if maybe we could have pictures of places from across the UK? Why not have a list on the Wiki of places people can take pictures of local landmarks (CC-BY or PD licensed, of course) and then have a community vote as to the best ones? Just my 2 pence :) Joe --- Joe O'Dell GreenerClassrooms Project Co-Ordinator http://www.greenerclassrooms.org.uk Fedora Ambassador Contributor (FreeMedia) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ascenseur bedsLUG Co-Ordinator beds.lug.org.uk DFEY Member (SouthEast) dfey.org On 3 Jun 2010, at 22:19, Rob Beard wrote: On 03/06/10 13:44, Liam Proven wrote: I vote 'no' to a London skyline. Why, because it's London? In that case, can you suggest some other imagery that is distinctively British? Personally I am not sure that any other British city is iconic enough to be internationally recognisable. Pie Mash? The Queen? The Queen eating pie mash? Stonehenge? (Not very modern or forwards-looking!) Olympics stadium? (Not finished yet.) None of the UK mountains are particularly recognisable - I doubt I could tell Snowdon or Ben Nevis or anything from any other random mountain in temperate climes. Loch Ness? The Lake District? Um... just a thought, Ubuntu UK is aimed at well, folks in the UK right? Why limit it so imagery which is distinctively British? Out of the mockups though, I like number 1. Actually I'm not bothered by the London Skyline myself, is the London Eye in there? (That's one of the first things I think of followed by Buckingham Palace). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On 03/06/10 16:09, Sean Miller wrote: Suggestion: on option1 we have a rotating image. So the one we see in the png is London, UK, the next one might be Floral Dance, Cornwall, UK, the next one Dancing at the Glastonbury Festival, UK and so and so on... could have about 30 different images of UK culture that alternate - that way, nobody would feel excluded. Sean I like this idea, also could maybe do a bit for tourism too :-) Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On 03/06/10 18:15, Alan Pope wrote: The podcast team were sent a mockup for the podcast site by a listener a while ago. In general we liked it, and the designer (without prompting) went off and created an initial go at the html, css and so on. I quite like it. He even redesigned our podcast logo, which is pretty cool. http://popey.com/~alan/podcast_mockup.png http://popey.com/~alan/UUPC/ I like the mockup image, but for some reason when I go to the site some of the fonts come up differently so it looks well, odd. :-( Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On 3 June 2010 22:26, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: I like the mockup image, but for some reason when I go to the site some of the fonts come up differently so it looks well, odd. :-( This is mostly fixable these days using @font-face (supported by current versions of all the major browsers) -- the font can simply be embedded into the site and downloaded by the browser ⢁). -- Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wow, what an active discussion - brilliant! I'll try and summarise my thoughts in a single, coherent mail. Ade Goodyer is correct in pointing out that we need to establish what we're trying to present before we decide how we're going to present it. However, from a purely aesthetic perspective: Michael H:Mockup #1 is the only one I like. Very slick, but maybe too much space used on the cityscape? A rotating image is a must. Popey/Andrew: Ooh, shiny. Love this one, but shouldn't the navbar be orange for community? [0] Could the white space beside the logo be utilised? Chris Swift: Nice, but needs some content to see how well it works. Also scope for a rotating image here. Of the three, I think Andrew's is my favourite at the moment, the other two are tied. Daubers' comment about the pictures being of the LoCo doing stuff sounds like a great idea. Geeknic, OggCamp, Ubuntu Hour, UDS are all good candidates here. As for the question of looking too commercial - I don't see a slick look and feel to a community web site as being a problem. Bear in mind, for a lot of people who aren't familiar with our community and our products, Free equates to Poor quality. We don't want to reinforce that view with an amateurish web site. An entity's web site it its brand and ours should be slick and professional, without feeling impersonal. Cheers, JT [0] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/308 - The use of Aubergine indicates Commercial involvement of one form or another, while Orange is a signal of community engagement. The Forums will use the Orange elements more strongly, and a formal product brochure, with descriptions of supporting services, would use more of the Aubergine. - -- - ---+ James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate | VoIP: +44 (0)870 490 2407 - ---+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwIOJgACgkQyDo4xMNTLiZslwCgk2S3rx8xrm4XdKLkCaLkKOv2 vEIAn3xKrOsV/SMlS7kJgRRbz/1yeTnZ =8YAn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On 4 June 2010 00:19, James Tait james.t...@wyrddreams.org wrote: Chris Swift: Nice, but needs some content to see how well it works. Also scope for a rotating image here. A test site by the Ubuntu Drupal designers/coders is setup at the following URL: http://staging.profarius.com/ . This is where I had taken my screenshot initially. If that doesn't work the Ubuntu Cymru team is currently building a site at http://ubuntu-cym.org/ which will be finished next week since I am myself away to be able to work on it properly. Cofion, Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Ade Goodyer adriangood...@googlemail.com wrote: The classic mistake of web design/development has also happened here and the style of the website has been designed first with the content to follow later. Having a fair amount of experience in the design and building of sites myself this is undoubtedly going to lead to inefficiency during the build and due to the high volume of input here and the fluid nature of it, I can see the final result delivering a very confused message in terms of design and the general mechanics of the site. I am by no way criticising the ideas so far, they have been great! I am merely suggesting that if we first define a clear purpose of what the site needs to achieve then they styling will come together later and look a lot better. Some measurable objectives are desperately needed too in order to convert all the energy from everyone into constructing a fantastic site :o) Ah, a breath of fresh air... Anyone agree? Without a doubt. After 22 years in IT, I think I can honestly say that one of the MAJOR flaws in so-called web designers's portfolios are the inability to grasp that it is the FUNCTION that matters and the design comes next. You see it time and time again - sites that look great, but simply don't hold together. Better a site that looks bad but rocks... Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote: This is mostly fixable these days using @font-face (supported by current versions of all the major browsers) -- the font can simply be embedded into the site and downloaded by the browser ⢁). I wouldn't rely on that. IE is still very picky about such things, and however much we might hope that people would be using Open Source options the fact is that the majority are not. Therefore, let's stick to web safe fonts Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
